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PLUMERIA “acuininata. 
White East-Indian Plumeria. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord; ArocvNkEm. Jussieu gen. 145. 
Div. I. Germeu duplex. Fructus bifollicalaris. Semìna mon 
yapposa. ; 
PLUMERIA. Cal: parvus obtusé 5-fidus. Cor. (contorta) in- 
fundibuliformis, tubo longo sensim ampliato, limbo obtusê 5-partito . 
patente (erecto in P. pudicá.) Anthere conniventes exserte. Stylus 
vix ullus; stigma bifidum. — Folliculi deorsüm flexi, longi, ventricosi ; 
semina margine membranaceo alata. Arbores aut arbuscule; folia 
alterna integra magna ; flores subcorymbosi terminales, plures abortivi. 
Jussieu gen. 145. i 
P. acuminata, foliis lanceolatis planis acuminatis. Dryander in Hori. 
Kew, ed. 2. 2. 70. 
Plumeria obtusa. [Loureiro cochinch. 117; (nec aliorum.) | 
Flos convolutus. Malaicè Bonga gulong tsjutsju. Rumph. amb. 4. 85. 
t. 38. d " 
Arbor mediocris ; rami rari, dispersa divaricati, elongati, crassi cum facie 
tumido-succulentá, lactescentes, .cinereo-virentes, fragiles, glabri, eicatrizats, 
a comá parcá pena foliorum terminati indéque florigeri. Folia 
obovato-lanceolata, longius in petiolum attenuata, 9-14-unciales latitudine sub- 
guadriunciali, costata nervis obliquis parüm dissitis apice flexis .& in lineam 
continuam nonnihil. cis marginem confluentibus. Flores laziìs qymosi, assury 
gentes, odoratissimi ; pedunculus terminalis, teres, robustus, nudus, supera? 
pluris divisus, virens, pedicelli 1-fori. Cal. esiguus, obtusis, herbaceus, 
Cor, candida, disco favescens, hypocrateriformis ; limbus contorto-rotabus 
paulominds unciis 3 tranversus, laciniis distantibus, sublineari-oblongis, obe 
tusis; tubus paritm brevior, intus ad stamina usque pilosus. Stam. tubo cir- 
cumposita prope fundum ; anth. sessiles, 
. Theonly species of the genus yet recorded from the 
East Indies, the rest being all from the West Indian islands 
and South American continent. We find it in no system- 
atic enumeration of vegetables, except the last edition of 
the Hortus Kewensis. In India it is a universal and Cone 
stant ornament of the garden; in China and Cochin- 
china likewise. In Batavia the chinese colonists use the 
flowers in confectionary; the females, as an ornamént in 
their hair. Pese 
A middle-sized tree, with a stem growing to about four 
feet high before it brancbes, measuring samples a fnot in 
a . 
